London Film Critics Circle Awards 2014



35th London Film Critics Circle Awards 18 January 2015

Film of the Year: Boyhood

British Film of the Year: Under the Skin

The 35th London Film Critics' Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2014, were announced by the London Film Critics' Circle on 18 January 2015.

Film of the Year
Boyhood
 * Birdman
 * The Grand Budapest Hotel
 * Ida
 * Leviathan
 * Mr. Turner
 * Nightcrawler
 * The Theory of Everything
 * Under the Skin

Foreign Language Film of the Year
Leviathan
 * Ida
 * Norte, the End of History
 * Two Days, One Night
 * Winter Sleep

British Film of the Year
Under the Skin
 * The Imitation Game
 * Mr. Turner
 * Pride
 * The Theory of Everything

Documentary of the Year
Citizenfour
 * 20,000 Days on Earth
 * Manakamana
 * Next Goal Wins
 * Night Will Fall

Actor of the Year
Michael Keaton – Birdman
 * Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
 * Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
 * Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
 * Timothy Spall – Mr. Turner

Actress of the Year
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
 * Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
 * Essie Davis – The Babadook
 * Scarlett Johansson – Under the Skin
 * Julianne Moore – Maps to the Stars

Supporting Actor of the Year
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash
 * Riz Ahmed – Nightcrawler
 * Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
 * Edward Norton – Birdman
 * Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher

Supporting Actress of the Year
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
 * Marion Bailey – Mr. Turner
 * Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
 * Agata Kulesza – Ida
 * Emma Stone – Birdman

British Actor of the Year
Timothy Spall – Mr. Turner 
 * Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
 * Tom Hardy – Locke and The Drop
 * Jack O'Connell – Starred Up, '71 and Unbroken
 * Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything

British Actress of the Year
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl and What We Did on Our Holiday
 * Emily Blunt – Into the Woods and Edge of Tomorrow
 * Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
 * Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game, Begin Again and Say When
 * Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle

Young British Performer of the Year
Alex Lawther – The Imitation Game
 * Daniel Huttlestone – Into the Woods
 * Corey McKinley –  '71 
 * Will Poulter – The Maze Runner and Plastic
 * Saoirse Ronan – The Grand Budapest Hotel

Director of the Year
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
 * Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
 * Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin
 * Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman
 * Mike Leigh – Mr. Turner

Screenwriter of the Year
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
 * Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
 * Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler
 * Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo – Birdman
 * Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Breakthrough British Filmmaker
Yann Demange –  '71 
 * Hossein Amini – The Two Faces of January
 * Elaine Constantine – Northern Soul
 * Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard – 20,000 Days on Earth
 * James Kent – Testament of Youth

Technical Achievement
Under the Skin – Mica Levi, score
 *  '71  – Chris Wyatt, editing
 * Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki, cinematography
 * Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, visual effects
 * The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen, production design
 * Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges, costumes
 * Leviathan – Mikhail Krichman, cinematography
 * A Most Violent Year – Kasia Walicka-Maimone, costumes
 * Mr. Turner – Dick Pope, cinematography
 * Whiplash – Tom Cross, editing

Dilys Powell Award

 * Miranda Richardson